Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 992: Great Dao Ring Pattern

Refining the Canglan World’s Heavenly Dao inside a Small Thousand World was not difficult for Chen Huaian now.

Once the Heavenly Dao origin was fully absorbed, that omniscient, omnipotent sensation toward the Canglan World reemerged.

The chaotic black mist that had clung to him like chewing gum, trying to leech off him, condensed into a strand of sword light and broke away from the Sea of Chaos to return to the Canglan World.

"I see…"

After a careful meditation, a realization formed in his mind.

When he had only absorbed part of the Canglan Heavenly Dao origin earlier, he could casually borrow the law powers of the Canglan World. Now, having completely devoured the Canglan Heavenly Dao, he found the Canglan World had become a part of him.

If he were to perish, the Canglan World would perish with him.

The former relationship was casual borrowing.

The latter relationship was complete ownership.

The only difference was that ordinary cultivators’ small worlds lacked mature, independent Heavenly Dao rules.

Their operations still relied on the Cangyun Realm’s Heavenly Dao, shifting as the Cangyun Realm’s rules shifted.

They could never break free of constraints to become fully independent.

As that Canglan-specific Great Dao gradually took root and stabilized within his divine soul,

Chen Huaian felt a sudden, scorching heat at the center of his brow, as if an incense stick had been ignited there.

He reflexively raised his hand and rubbed the spot with his fingertip, touching a slightly raised, ring-shaped texture.

"What… what is this? Are they really carving another Heavenly Eye into my forehead now?" Chen Huaian grumbled inwardly.

At least the previous Heavenly Eye could be concealed, not suddenly popping out to startle Li Qingran.

But this ringed pattern now seemed to sprout and take root like mountains and rivers, an outright manifestation of the Great Dao, radiating an imperious "once born, do not hide" arrogance.

This seemed to be a mark of a realm above Sage…

Like how cultivators at the Qi Refining stage naturally produce spiritual energy in their bodies, there was no need to hide this; it simply was.

Though he did not know the exact origin of this pattern, he could clearly perceive that:

The Canglan World’s destiny energy and Great Dao rules were converging toward this small spot between his brows like rivers flowing to the sea.

Casually scooping a handful of spiritual energy and shaping it into a water-moon mirror bloom, Chen Huaian lowered his head to inspect his reflection.

At the center of his brow now sat a mark emitting a faint golden light, solemn in bearing, its pattern identical to the ring of the Canglan World.

"Tsk," Chen Huaian tugged at the corner of his mouth, "I suppose this is the sign that I have fully refined the Canglan Heavenly Dao?"

With a thought he tentatively drew upon the Great Dao foundation at his brow.

In an instant, an abyssal, majestic Heavenly Dao pressure surged through him, as if a great river had burst its banks, coursing through every limb and marrow.

At that moment, all living beings within the Canglan World sensed it.

Earlier, when Chen Huaian had hovered above the Forest Sea as a speck of mustard seed merged with heaven and earth, not revealing even a trace of landscape.

But now, whether flowers and trees, birds and beasts, or the unruly world beasts…

All of them shuddered through body and soul and involuntarily prostrated to the ground.

Yet their bowed heads were not driven by fear.

They felt a reverence and obeisance rising from the depths of their divine souls.

It was the world’s myriad beings worshipping their sovereign.

In the depths of Chen Huaian’s eyes, the river of time seemed to freeze.

All physical shells and concrete forms of existence faded like smoke, becoming dense swarms of causal fireflies.

Within each speck of light were birth, aging, sickness, death, joys and sorrows; each fate thread appeared like the lines on a palm, every detail plain as day.

He had an intuitive sense that with a mere flick of his finger, he could casually alter the destiny and causal lines of mountains, rivers, and all living things.

In this moment, standing within this Canglan World,

Chen Huaian was the supreme, singular Heaven above all, omniscient and omnipotent.

"The feeling of setting rules at will is indeed gratifying…

This Canglan Heavenly Dao force should be able to augment my sword path, right?

I wonder how powerful it will be, I'd love to find somewhere to test it…"

Chen Huaian rubbed his fingertip, a glint of impatience in his eyes.

But now that his being had merged with the Canglan Great Dao, every blade of grass and creature in this realm was his incense and foundation.

Why would the master of the household break his own porcelain and harm his own people?

Hitting one's own is always in poor taste.

His thoughts shifted.

He suddenly recalled the three civilizations that had previously invaded in a grandshow, and a cold smirk curved his lips as calculation formed in his heart.

Using outsiders as targets to test his sword would be the proper thing to do.

Besides, he had not yet settled accounts with those civilizations.

It is rude to take without giving back!

Previously the intelligent mechanical fleet and the Star Devourer cluster had appeared fierce but produced little effect; they had been intercepted by Li Qingran and the Canglan gods, their bombardments confined outside the world barrier and leaving no lasting traces on the main material plane.

Only that world claiming to be the Abyss had actually broken through the door, leaving causal marks within this land.

Chen Huaian flickered and appeared at the edge of the newly mended world boundary.

After searching through the ruins, he finally dug out several skeletal remnants of Abyssal Demons.

He casually picked up one grotesque demon skull, and the golden vertical pupil at its brow suddenly opened.

"Heaven's Calculation!"

The golden light in the vertical pupil flared wildly, reflecting all that had happened here.

The law-light wheel spun, using the demon’s filthy, ruined corpse as a clue to follow the thread, plucking the destiny lines from the river of time to forcibly use causality to locate that Abyssal world.

The moment he did this, the entire Canglan World stirred with winds and clouds.

Inside the Sea God Temple, Poseidon, who had been dozing, was rudely awakened by this unreasonable Heavenly Dao pressure.

He crept out of the main hall trembling, looking up to see black clouds pressing over the sky, ten-thousand spans of lightning writhing like silver snakes.

At the horizon a huge golden whirlpool of thunder punishment slowly took shape.

That familiar aura—who else but that exalted one could it be?

"My heavens… What on earth is Chen Huaian about to do now…" Poseidon’s lips quivered; he dared not look again. With a whoosh he retreated deep into the temple and plunked a massive conch shell over his head.

Out of sight, out of mind; if he pretended to be blind and deaf, let Chen Huaian do whatever chaos he wished.

The countless lives within the Canglan World did not know that the petty heavenly phenomenon Chen Huaian had stirred while divining here was only a drizzle compared to the true terror now descending on another world.

Following the causal bond left on that demon remnant, Chen Huaian’s sight and pressure ignored the void between universes and rudely kicked open someone else’s door.

In that fetid, despair-filled Abyssal world,

The bloodred dome that had stood unchanged since time immemorial suddenly emitted a scalp-tingling ripping sound.

Crack—!

Then the blood clouds boiled as if in a cauldron, surging aside in panic.

A supreme, majestic golden Punishing Thunder Eye, appearing without warning, invertedly hung in the bloodsky.

It looked down at the ants below and slowly opened.